Sentence examples for contrived reality from inspiring English sources

She believes that today's media-friendly youth is overexposed to contrived reality on television, leading to a detachment from images of others' real pain and terror.

AS viewers of "The Restaurant," the painfully contrived reality television show, learned in a recent episode, serving cold food does not go over well with diners.

We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly iridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real.

MTV's "Real World" borrowed the verite approach and layered on its own contrived reality, selecting a handful of ready-to-explode 20-somethings to live together in a house.

No, there's no room at the inn for something as outdated as "goodwill" when families go head-to-head, matching wits and carbon-footprints in a contrived, reality showdown.

The scene is more disturbing than any contrived controversy on reality television.

In this series the artist explores the inability of the 21st century oversaturated American soul to distinguish between political realities and pop culture illusions, constructing doll-house depictions of comic-contrived reality to compete against global belief systems.

Reality television is so contrived these days; real reality is always more gripping.

An earnest "manifesto" against the traditional novel (which Shields finds "unbelievably predictable, tired, contrived, and essentially purposeless"), "Reality Hunger" galvanized many critics and novelists alike.

ESPN's "Dream Job" lacks the essentials of the reality genre: contrived love, grotesque physical tasks, naked Machiavellians, exotic locales, obnoxious fiancés and Donald Trump's cantilevered coif.

The success of "Survivor" four decades later is evidence of his prescience: millions are relishing, as examples of reality, concoctions contrived to meet the market's taste.